Troll (2022)

 A Norwegian version of Godliza or maybe King Kong, featuring a 150 ft Norwegian troll. 

 Is this movie a bunch of standard cliches involving a plucky group of unlikely heroes - including the Scientist, the Mad Conspiracy Theorist Who Is Right, the Nerd and the Army Guy - trying to stop the giant monster as it rampages toward The City while the actual army throws increasingly less effective attacks at it, leading to the climax that asks the audience who the real monsters are? 

Yes. Yes, it is.

So, honest truth... I like the cliches.I am sick to the teeth of stories that try to "subvert the cliche" or "avoid the cliche" or whatever... not the least because usually that's just an excuse for some combination of "dark and gritty," "social/political commentary" and "lots of sex." Give me a story that embraces the cliches and does it well. 

This movie does that. I liked it. Sure, I could probably have watched it in Norwegian without the subtitles and still followed the gist of the plot, but it was fun, it was good and it did actually manage to surprise me once or twice.

So, yeah... watch it. I actually recommend watching it in Norwegian (with subtitles) because a nerd talking about Star Trek in Norwegian is even funnier.